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"Hi Mrs Goodrich…" Another reeted as he and his father approached the for Bryant and Mr Thoreeted

"Okay dude, I'll see you after school; andto the boy that Mrs Goodrich had called Bryant The ave him a couple of hearty pats on his back

"Okay dad see ya…" Bryant said back to theJayden's attention Dad, he wondered Suddenly it occurred to hi a dad Did he have a dad? Jayden wondered for the first tiht he would have to ask mom about this

- 9:15 am

"This is a picture of my family…" Five years old Tiffany explained as she stood up near table where she sat, proudly holding up her picture for the whole class to see

"This isin the whole orld" She explained pointing to one of the figures in her fa Roscoe and he loves our cat Cookiein the whole orld"

"Un-uh… Everybody knows that dogs hate cats" Little Rayree her head up "Roscoe loves Cookie like my daddy loves my mommy" She proudly finished as she pointed out her daddy with a great big s Mrs Goodrich by surprise

"Raymond that isn't nice! We don't call each other naly four-eyes" Tiffany quickly threw back ignoring the teacher's words

"Tiffany! Ray her voice It was evident that she didn't approve by the sound of her tone

"We live in all different kinds of fas that do like cats…"

"Na… told ya…" Tiffany said sticking out her tongue at hiue out back at her

"That's enough froold star for today then you had better stop it now" She gave the She paused to allow her words to sink in When there were no more outbursts she turned back to the task at hand